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The cost of a missing certificate at handover: the scramble to understand it
A practical way to classify a missing record, assign the next action and avoid a late handover scramble.
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Triage a legacy archive before you build a golden thread
Five practical steps to make legacy building records usable before scanning or migration starts.
Read the article →The Building Safety Levy lands on 1 October 2026. Here's who pays, and what happens if they don't.
A new tax on new homes: who pays, what it costs per square metre, the exemptions, and the certificate it can block.
Read the article →The golden thread exists because we didn't know our own buildings. There's now a price for ignoring it.
486 buildings with ACM cladding, found only after Grenfell. 66% of certificate applications refused. What ignoring the duty actually costs.
Read the article →Golden thread building safety: what late registration means for your records
3,563 buildings registered late. 290 investigations, 45 enforcement actions, and a regulator that can't say how many are still missing.
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